Behind The Doors Of San Miguel De Allende

Author : Robert De Gast
Publisher : Pomegranate
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0764913417

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Behind the Doors of San Miguel de Allende by Robert De Gast Pdf

Robert de Gast, author of the popular The Doors of San Miguel de Allende crosses the thresholds of homes in this historic Mexican town to discover their remarkable outdoor paradises--sunstruck, lushly colored courtyards, patios, and breezeways--that lay beyond them. Come with de Gast as he guides viewers to parts of San Miguel visitors seldom see and offers glimpses into the daily lives and traditions of those who live in this unique place. Established in the sixteenth century as a Franciscan mission, the lovely town of San Miguel de Allende has been an art and artisanal center for nearly two centuries. Its cool summers and mild winters have more recently made it a popular destination for vacationers from North America and Europe. A part-time resident of San Miguel since 1991, Robert de Gast is an award-winning photographer and a widely published writer. His avocations include hot-air ballooning, which he pursues in Mexico, and sailing, which he does for part of the year on the East Coast of the United States.

Author : Robert De Gast
Publisher : Pomegranate
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 156640990X

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The Doors of San Miguel de Allende by Robert De Gast Pdf

Photographs highlight the traditional doorways into the houses and other old buildings of the historic Mexican city.

Author : Julie Meade
Publisher : Moon Travel
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781640492691

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Moon San Miguel de Allende by Julie Meade Pdf

Immerse yourself in San Miguel's baroque architecture, thriving art scene, and local flavors with Moon San Miguel de Allende. Inside you'll find: Flexible, strategic itineraries, from a week covering the best of San Miguel to three days exploring the art and architecture of the city The top sights and unique experiences: Admire colonial architecture and browse contemporary art galleries and streetside markets. Soak in a hot spring, sample mezcal, and snack on gorditas. Stroll the Franciscan missions of the Sierra Gorda or enjoy the mariachis serenading diners on the sidewalks. Celebrate Mexico's independence at the colorful parades of the fiestas patrias, or indulge in handmade tamales before siesta time Focused advice from expat Julie Doherty Meade, who shares her passion for the vida mexicana In-depth coverage of San Miguel de Allende and vicinity, Guanajuato, and Querétaro Full-color photos and detailed maps throughout Background information on the landscape, culture, history, and neighborhoods Essential insight for travelers on health and safety, transportation, and accommodations, as well as a handy Spanish phrasebook With Moon San Miguel de Allende's practical tips and an insider's view on the best things to do and see, you can plan your trip your way. Looking for más Mexico? Check out Moon Cancún & Cozumel, Moon Los Cabos, or Moon Mexico City.

Author : Ted Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578568071

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Eternal San Miguel de Allende by Ted Davis Pdf

Eternal San Miguel de Allende is a celebration offers a rare insider's view into the interiors of 18th Century San Miguel de Allende mansions and haciendas, as well as a look into the lesser known and thrilling traditions that exist only in this fabled Mexican town. Long a magnet for the artistic and literary avant-garde, San Miguel de Allende remains a potent mix of old world heritage and Mexican indigenous traditions.

Author : Beth Kephart
Publisher : Forest Avenue Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781942436454

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Wife | Daughter | Self by Beth Kephart Pdf

Wife | Daughter | Self investigates identity and the writing life through the perspective of one of the nation’s top memoir teachers and critics. How are we shaped by the people we love? Who are we when we think no one else is watching? How do we trust the choices we make? The answers shift as the years go by. The stories remake themselves as we remember. Curiously, inventively, Beth Kephart reflects on the iterative, composite self in her new memoir—traveling to lakes and rivers, New Mexico and Mexico, the icy waters of Alaska and a hot-air balloon launch in search of understanding. She is accompanied, often, by her Salvadoran-artist husband. She spends time, a lot of time, with her widowed father. As she looks at them she ponders herself and comes to terms with the person she is still becoming. At once sweeping and intimate, Wife | Daughter | Self is a memoir built of interlocking essays by an acclaimed author, teacher, and critic.

Author : Laurie Mika
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781600612152

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Mixed-Media Mosaics by Laurie Mika Pdf

Imagine beautiful mosaic pieces with tiles that you easily create yourself! Mixed-Media Mosaics offers a fresh, new approach to a traditional art form. By making your own tiles from polymer clay, you control the size, shape, color and even the texture, resulting in beautiful finished pieces that include tabletops, boxes, jewelry and shrines. In addition to learning traditional tiling techniques such as working with grout and cutting glass tile, you'll also explore creative options for personalizing tiles: • Discover the magic of mica powders and the regal look they can give to mosaics • Learn quick and easy ways of adding paint to handcrafted and commercial tile • See how easy it is to create molds and cast your own relief tiles • Find ways to add personal meaning to your work with the addition of text tiles • Experiment with the addition of beads, jewelry and other embellishments by embedding them right into the tile! Whether you'd like to complete a mosaic tabletop for your patio, a jewelry box as a special gift, or simply experiment with jewelry, you'll find the inspiration you seek in Mixed-Media Mosaics. Start creating your custom mosaic pieces today.

Author : Allegra Hyde
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609384432

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Of This New World by Allegra Hyde Pdf

Allegra Hyde's debut story collection, Of This New World, offers a menagerie of utopias: real, imagined, and lost. Starting with the Garden of Eden and ending in a Mars colony, the stories wrestle with conflicts of idealism and practicality, communal ambition and individual kink. Stories jump between genres--from historical fiction to science fiction, realism to fabulism--but all ask those fundamental human questions: What do we do when we lose our utopia? What will we do to get it back?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1872 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000-07
Category : Books
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111050477

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lawrence Foster,Lynn V. Foster
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0618005366

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Best Places to Stay in Mexico by Lawrence Foster,Lynn V. Foster Pdf

The most up-to-date, comprehensive guide to outstanding, distinctive lodging options in Mexico No fee accepted for inclusion It's a fact. You will spend more on lodging than on any other aspect of your Mexican getaway. Where you stay deserves special attention when planning your trip. Many travelers to Mexico focus on the wrong hazards, however, and come home disappointed and disillusioned. The discerning, honest reviews in this book can prevent you from wasting hundreds of dollars on a lodging choice that doesn't suit your needs and tastes. This completely revised and updated edition of BEST PLACES TO STAY IN MEXICO provides thoughtful, detailed descriptions of a variety of accommodations in Mexico's four main regions: the Mayan Riviera, the Mexican Riviera, the Extraordinary Interior, and Baja California. * Romantic Hideaways * Resorts and Spas * Beachfront Bargains * Intimate and Affordable Inns * Adventure Retreats * Sophisticated Luxury Hotels

Author : Gin Sander
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781492609810

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The Big Bucket List Book by Gin Sander Pdf

Everyone has a daunting "bucket list" of things to complete before they die. The problem? We spend too much time creating lists of what we want to achieve instead of just doing it. The Big Bucket List Book will transform the way you look at the world and the power you have to achieve your dreams. In this charming and practical collection, Gin Sander offers over 130 fresh ideas for infusing your life with a bit of glamor, adventure, and style for every budget and adventure level, including: • Staying in a castle to channel your inner romantic (did we mention you could do it for free?) • Joining a bike race in Tuscany or giving back with a humanitarian mission in Africa • Taking a songwriting class as the next Joni Mitchell or Jack White • Eating pie (need we say more?) It's time to stop listing, and start living! With this book in hand, you can make your next chapter the most enriching and personally fulfilling of them all...and maybe change the world while you're at it.

Author : Lisa Pinley Covert
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781496201362

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San Miguel de Allende by Lisa Pinley Covert Pdf

Struggling to free itself from a century of economic decline and stagnation, the town of San Miguel de Allende, nestled in the hills of central Mexico, discovered that its "timeless" quality could provide a way forward. While other Mexican towns pursued policies of industrialization, San Miguel--on the economic, political, and cultural margins of revolutionary Mexico--worked to demonstrate that it preserved an authentic quality, earning designation as a "typical Mexican town" by the Guanajuato state legislature in 1939. With the town's historic status guaranteed, a coalition of local elites and transnational figures turned to an international solution--tourism--to revive San Miguel's economy and to reinforce its Mexican identity. Lisa Pinley Covert examines how this once small, quiet town became a UNESCO World Heritage Site and home to one of Mexico's largest foreign-born populations. By exploring the intersections of economic development and national identity formation in San Miguel, she reveals how towns and cities in Mexico grappled with change over the course of the twentieth century. Covert similarly identifies the historical context shaping the promise and perils of a shift from an agricultural to a service-based economy. In the process, she demonstrates how San Miguel could be both typically Mexican and palpably foreign and how the histories behind each process were inextricably intertwined.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0984468005

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Spanish Doors by Anonim Pdf

Author : Judy Blankenship
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292783096

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Cañar by Judy Blankenship Pdf

Once isolated from the modern world in the heights of the Andean mountains, the indigenous communities of Ecuador now send migrants to New York City as readily as they celebrate festivals whose roots reach back to the pre-Columbian past. Fascinated by this blending of old and new and eager to make a record of traditional customs and rituals before they disappear entirely, photographer-journalist Judy Blankenship spent several years in Cañar, Ecuador, photographing the local people in their daily lives and conducting photography workshops to enable them to preserve their own visions of their culture. In this engaging book, Blankenship combines her sensitively observed photographs with an inviting text to tell the story of the most recent year she and her husband Michael spent living and working among the people of Cañar. Very much a personal account of a community undergoing change, Cañar documents such activities as plantings and harvests, religious processions, a traditional wedding, healing ceremonies, a death and funeral, and a home birth with a native midwife. Along the way, Blankenship describes how she and Michael went from being outsiders only warily accepted in the community to becoming neighbors and even godparents to some of the local children. She also explains how outside forces, from Ecuador's failing economy to globalization, are disrupting the traditional lifeways of the Cañari as economic migration virtually empties highland communities of young people. Blankenship's words and photographs create a moving, intimate portrait of a people trying to balance the demands of the twenty-first century with the traditions that have formed their identity for centuries.

Author : Toby Smith
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780595138173

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Romantic Inns of Mexico by Toby Smith Pdf

Here's a delightful guide to the most charming places to stay in Mexico: the small Mexican posada or inn. Typically, these small inns are somewhat removed from the busy downtown and tourist districts, often in quiet residential neighborhoods, on the outskirts of small towns and villages, and sometimes in rural settings. Many of these small inns occupy venerable Spanish Colonial structures: an old convent, a grandee's ranch house, or the former home of a bishop. The whitewashed walls of your room may be hung with colorful weavings, ornamental tin work, or antique religious carvings, and your deepset doorway may look out through an arched portico to a flower-filled patio or splashing fountain. These places really do exist, and inns-authority Toby Smith has recently returned from Mexico with a selective list of more than 40 of the very best. Her lively, narrative descriptions of each inn tell you everything you'll need to know including how to arrange reservations. Let Romantic Inns of Mexico be your passport to happy holidays south of the border.

Author : Susan J. Slotkis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781501315916

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Foundations of Interior Design by Susan J. Slotkis Pdf

Foundations of Interior Design, 3rd edition, offers a thorough update to this introduction to the creative, technical, and business aspects of the interior design profession. By surveying design history, the elements and principles of design, professional practice, and more, Susan Slotkis provides a practical and comprehensive overview. This new edition provides a wide range of examples of design in different styles and applications. Projects and applications designed by both individuals and as collaborative efforts locally and globally are featured, from rural America to modern Dubai. The contribution of many interior designers, those who work independently or as part of large firms is demonstrated in the choice of illustrations and case studies. They represent a balance of small and large, simple and complex, and residential and contract from throughout the United States and abroad. Foundations of Interior Design STUDIO -Study smarter with self-quizzes featuring scored results and personalized study tips -Review concepts with flashcards of terms and definitions